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Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:33 Francois Chaubard And then Misha, uh, hardware software co-design, been working on that for two decades and ran AI infra at NVIDIA, uh, and then also worked on hardware software co-design at Meta.
Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:33 Garry Tan Um, what does super intelligence mean operationally inside Meta right now? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:35 Alexandr Wang So I think it was, um, it's been, you know, I've been at Meta for about a year now, and it's been, um, quite a year. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:44 Garry Tan and, you know, how you manage your teams right now at Meta.
- ▶ 26:53 Garry Tan I mean, one of the things I'm curious about is, like, are there sort of applications of AI that you're seeing among your friends or internal to meta that you can talk about that are, you know, there's sort of obvious near-term, maybe… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:31 Alexandr Wang Yes, which is, uh, we are, uh, Meta is proud to offer everyone in this room a thousand dollars of free credits for the new Spark API.
Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:16 Sam Altman Every week come, I think it was on Tuesdays, and he would, like, cook, he himself would cook us dinner, and we would all walk in feeling, like, very hopeless and very dejected, and we would, there were eight companies, and then we would…
- ▶ 10:19 Sam Altman Um, there was another version of, a mini version of people building on top of, basically, like, Facebook apps.
How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:17 Olivier Pomel Uh, I mean, I mean, now, you know, look, now there's, there's, uh, you know, DeepMind and OpenAI and Meta.
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:13 Mark Pincus And to me, that was the beginning of this people web, even though it was a bunch of years before we got to Friendster and Facebook and LinkedIn, my, my failed company tribe. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:14 Garry Tan That's when we're going to see the new meta.
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:08 Boris Cherny Um, and this is crazy because I went, in my old life, I was responsible for code quality at Meta.
- ▶ 41:13 Boris Cherny Um, and I was responsible for the quality of all of our code bases across every product, across like, you know, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, whatever.
The Truth About The AI Bubble · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:13 Harj Taggar It's like Meta may end up over-investing like a significant amount in like the capex and infrastructure, but like they essentially have to, the big companies have to do it because they can't just like sit on the sidelines, and in the case…
- ▶ 14:13 Diana Hu The internet ended up being still a giant economic driver, and what that means is startups like the future Facebook or the future
From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:24 James Hawkins Yeah, I think he was actually trying to get a job at Facebook at the time.
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator
Startup Advice: AI GTM, Pivoting & How To Hire · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:13 Brad Flora We're far from the days of, I need to hire enough engineers that my, I can flip this to Facebook for a certain amount of money.
Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:32 Nick Joseph But we were going to go to a bigger scale than Facebook had been to. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:42 Ankit Gupta But, like, by this before, do you mean in AI companies, necessarily, or also, you know, like, someone who worked at Meta on, like, their not AI team, but they ran some other distributed system that, you know, reached internet scale five,…
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:40 Dylan Field Or even Meta's new AI app.
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:13 Aravind Srinivas Like, like it's not like WhatsApp where if you build a WhatsApp rival, Meta has a definitely like a questionable brand, right? 2 times in the scene
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 39:58 Dr. Fei-Fei Li And, uh, for example, it's clear why Facebook, uh, Meta wants to open source, right? 4 times in the scene
Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products · Y Combinator
Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
- ▶ 39:49 Sam Altman So I'd heard about, like, he kind of had this cult following on the internet, but I heard about, uh, what was then called the Summer Founders Program, and now it's just called Y Combinator, from Blake Ross, who I lived in the same freshman…
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator
How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:03 Tom Blomfield It was either Google or Facebook released a, like, a scientific model, like, pretty early on, and then very, very quickly pulled it back, because it was saying some, it was hallucinating sometimes.
Vibe Coding Is The Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:24 Diana Hu And to that, I think there's very good historical example, like Facebook as well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:30 Harj Taggar Like if you think if you compare Facebook and Twitter, in both cases, they went very quickly from zero to one into a scrappy move fast, break things way. 3 times in the scene
How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:26 Parker Conrad Like, you know, there was, there was a flavor of the month, like, uh, you know, what is there like a, is there a Facebook app angle to this?
Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:07 David Lieb Um, and so if we start with like Facebook, let's say when Facebook started, there was no newsfeed. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:07 David Lieb Um, and so if we start with like Facebook, let's say when Facebook started, there was no newsfeed. 3 times in the scene
How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:15 Harj Taggar Now we have, like, Facebook and Google who have, like, you know, pretty decent percentage of just, like, the world using their software already, like, as soon as these things start rolling out, and I feel like it's another thing that's… 3 times in the scene
How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:09 unnamed speaker And I think that a lot of young people have never been, it's never been communicated to them that the strategy that got them to this school, that got them the meta job, that got them the Ivy league degree.
How To Find A Co-Founder | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:26 Harj Taggar Facebook, one of the biggest companies in the world, is really now known as Mark Zuckerberg's company, but he actually co-founded it with Dustin Moskovitz.
- ▶ 9:59 Harj Taggar like I know lots of people who would be a great potential co-founder, but they're not ready to start a startup right now, or they just got a job at Google or Facebook and they would never leave.
How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years · Y Combinator
Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:54 Harj Taggar Like if you, if you come in particular, I think the archetype here is like, you come from like a really well paid job at like Google or Facebook.
Consumer Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:05 Tom Blomfield I'll give you an example from Facebook's early days. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:39 Tom Blomfield Did they come from your Facebook ads or your,
- ▶ 9:10 Tom Blomfield Even a hundred percent organic to zero percent paid for some of the absolute best consumer companies like Facebook and WhatsApp in the early days.
- ▶ 9:26 Tom Blomfield That's because if you're relying too much on the big ad platforms like Google and Meta, to increase your growth, you're basically just going to have to pay them more money. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:20 Tom Blomfield So for Facebook, an active user might be checking Facebook once or multiple times a day, but with Airbnb, you might only book a vacation home every six months. 9 times in the scene
B2B Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:30 Tom Blomfield But, you know, making buttons red or green, that's not really something you have the scale to split test until you're really at the size of Google or Facebook.
Does Your Startup Need To Be In San Francisco? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:16 Dalton Caldwell Google and Facebook and Apple, the Apple HQ is in Cupertino.
- ▶ 8:51 Dalton Caldwell That's why Facebook has any value at all.
Silicon Valley's Cargo Culting Problem · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:25 Michael Seibel So number two, of course, Facebook, even closer to kind of our generation.
- ▶ 4:45 Michael Seibel Uh, what else did, what else was the Uber, not the, uh, the Facebook classics? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:59 Michael Seibel What's funny about maybe these Uber ones that are slightly different from the Facebook and Google ones is like, I don't think Uber even did these things.
- ▶ 7:39 Michael Seibel I think in Facebook's case, another perfect example of, like, 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:22 Michael Seibel Do they care about the Facebook, I don't know, or do they care that their friends are on there, and they get updates quickly?
How to Apply And Succeed at Y Combinator | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:18 Dalton Caldwell This is the story of two friends who are both programmers working on infrastructure at Facebook, and they quit their jobs three months ago to build a new cloud hosting company.
Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:29 Kat Mignalek It's like Facebook meets LinkedIn meets Quora.
The Cult of Conformity in Silicon Valley · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:29 Michael Seibel Um, you know, college kids today obsess with getting jobs at Facebook and Google.
The Secrets To Setting Smarter Goals · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:27 Michael Seibel One other example, maybe an old one we talked about in the past, you know, with Facebook, where you might be able to argue, well, they raised money when they only had a small number of users, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:15 Dalton Caldwell And what may be a good strategy to, like, rest invest working at Google or Facebook, and to just do as little work as possible by sandbagging goals and working three hours a week or whatever people do, when you're the boss, do you see how…
- ▶ 18:56 Dalton Caldwell You can get someone with a title to leave Google or Facebook or somewhere really impressive.
How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:58 Gustaf Alströmer Um, Facebook advertising. 2 times in the scene
Startup Business Models and Pricing | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:44 Aaron Epstein There's Google, there's Facebook, there's Twitter, just to name a few.
How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:58 Gustaf Alströmer It's a great movie, but they got a lot of things wrong on how Facebook actually got started.
Advantages Of A First-Time Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:08 Michael Seibel And, you know, I think we would be remiss without adding that, you know, some of the biggest companies ever, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, first time founders.
The Two Mindsets That Can KILL Your Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:41 Dalton Caldwell Facebook and TikTok, and it's with your friends and you can discover, you know, they'll just kind of like rattle all this stuff off, but they will have no code.
Y Combinator Is Back In Person · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:41 Dalton Caldwell You know, face the price of Facebook ads is dropping.
Why You Should Leave Your FAANG Job · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:55 Dalton Caldwell Again, I'm talking about programmers here, but you have so much infrastructure inside of Google or Facebook to do your job.
- ▶ 9:44 Michael Seibel The flow that you walk through to work to, like, go to MIT and be a CS major and then get employed at Facebook is nothing like the flow you'd work, you'd walk through to go from a Facebook engineer to raising money.
- ▶ 14:48 Dalton Caldwell Like I saw that Facebook built some kind of Silicon, they built a chip and then they were like, no, nevermind. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:23 Dalton Caldwell Yeah, like, I know a lot of ex-Facebook people who kind of, like, feel that they did evil, and they made money doing it, and they seem pretty unhappy about it.
How To Compete With Amazon and Google · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:45 Brad Flora With my company, Perfect Audience, we started off using the Facebook Exchange API, and so we had ostensibly eight or nine competitors, and we didn't, we tried not to worry about them too much, we worried about them too much, and we were… 7 times in the scene
How Future Billionaires Get Sh*t Done · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:51 Dalton Caldwell but yeah, I mean, I, I uninstalled Facebook years ago,
Why Investors Can’t Fix Your Company – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:37 Dalton Caldwell Is pretty different when you were employee number, you know, a hundred or 200 at Airbnb or Google or Facebook than employee number five. 2 times in the scene
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:40 Michael Seibel So you had another story about Facebook early days that, that is similar in this light.
- ▶ 20:22 Dalton Caldwell So, so look for the Facebook story.
How To Change The World? Get The Small Things Right – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:02 Dalton Caldwell The Facebook platform.
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:57 Michael Seibel You know, the classic, I guess now old example of this was Facebook at Harvard, like as long as the Harvard kids were using it, or even a class, even just one of the grades in Harvard was using the product, it was useful.
- ▶ 52:39 Michael Seibel And that if their system is open, if YouTube system is open, if Facebook system is open, they will be exploited by the next person.
Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:48 Laks Srini Why can't we do zero down mortgages to people in Facebook, Google, Apple, Airbnb?
- ▶ 17:58 Laks Srini How do Facebook bus routes affect home prices?
Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:18 Craig Cannon Like the whole Facebook hearing. 3 times in the scene
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:19 Cory Doctorow Extended to cover terms of service violations, as it would be eventually, thanks to legal action by Blizzard and Facebook, where they were able to effectively say that, uh, violating terms of service was, was hacking, uh, and potentially…
- ▶ 8:28 Cory Doctorow Uh, you know, once you build a thing on the scale of Facebook, you're gonna end up with some, you know, unfortunate ethnic cleansings, but, you know, you can't make an omelet with a, without breaking eggs. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:59 Cory Doctorow You know, Zuckerberg in that, um, recording that leaked to the verge of his all hands meeting describing, you know, Facebook's future and rubbishing, um, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:32 Cory Doctorow Facebook doesn't have users. 20 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:53 Cory Doctorow And the quid pro quo is you have to let Facebook kind of plunder every, every fact about it. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:32 Cory Doctorow I mean, you know, Power Ventures was a company that scraped Facebook along with a bunch of its competitors like LinkedIn, put it all on a single dashboard. 4 times in the scene
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:17 Gustaf Alströmer Another one might be Facebook, Instagram. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:50 Gustaf Alströmer So if you think of a LinkedIn or an Airbnb, sorry, LinkedIn or a Facebook, then having more people on the, on the product is going to make it better.
- ▶ 29:17 Gustaf Alströmer Um, many of the advertising tools like Google and Facebook have a very clear system for how they calculate this. 2 times in the scene
Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
EconTalk Host Russ Roberts on Key Economic Concepts for Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:50 Craig Cannon Obviously, you know, companies like Facebook are in the news around unintended consequences. 6 times in the scene
Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:10 Adora Cheung So an example of this is if your business model is advertising based, like a Facebook or Google, then
Kevin Hale - How to Evaluate Startup Ideas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:38 Kevin Hale Facebook's a good classic example, but people also really love Slack, right, because it's like, oh, I'm gonna be engaged and using it multiple times a day during the wake, work day.
- ▶ 16:36 Kevin Hale If you go to Investor, and you've done a bunch of Facebook, or Twitter, or Google Ads, and you show your CAC and LTV, that you were able to prove that you have a sustainable sort of acquisition model.
Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:32 Sarah Nahm And my, uh, freshman class at Stanford was the first class to start with Facebook.
- ▶ 16:51 Craig Cannon A lot of our listeners are early founders, and they are competing against Facebook and Google, Google, I was gonna call it the Goog, uh, Facebook and Google, and, uh, every big tech company, right?
Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:41 Kevin Hale So Facebook was really brand new at the time.
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:49 Gustaf Alströmer I would, I, I, I, we have this, uh, YouTube video when I talk about growth in startup school, and there's the first couple of slides that they talk about, so like the evolution of, of Facebook and their growth.
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